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"John, are you okay?"
He drops his gaze, fists clenched at his sides, teeth worrying the inside of his cheek. He lifts his head and his eyes are wet. "No."
Anna's throat tightens. "Can you tell me why?"
"No." He opens his mouth as if to continue, but no sound comes out. He closes it. He swallows hard, and shakes his head, laughs—a sad, shattered sound that breaks her heart. "I really can't."
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A difficult trauma case causes John Carter to reckon with a trauma of his own.
A "what-if" continuation of s04e13. CW: Contains non-graphic references to canonical CSA.
Written for Bad Things Happen Bingo Square "Nightmares".
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- Part 2 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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11 Apr 2026
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All things considered, the end of the world wasn’t as bad as she’d thought it would be. The plague was awful. That’s true. By now, she can admit that much without the thought crumbling her, but give it any more weight and she knows it’ll kill her more surely than any sickness.
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The zombies were bad, but life after everyone else dies is worse. Anna's living on the edge of survival, doing her best with a core group of County doctors to find a place they can be safe and rebuild. She thinks she finds that when she stumbles upon an old, abandoned mansion, but what's inside is scarier than any zombie. It's the saddest living boy in Chicago!
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13 Mar 2026
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Medwhump May Day 13- Chronic Pain
Kerry knows something is wrong for days before anything happens. She sees it in the hunch of his shoulders, the dark circles under his eyes, the winces he lets slip when he thinks nobody is looking.
Nor does it surprise her when she ventures the question to him and is met with obfuscation on his first day back.
“John, are you still in a lot of pain?”
“It's not too bad.”
And she tries. She really does.
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A patient injures Carter shortly after his return to work. The façade falls.
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- Part 13 of Maisie's Medwhump May 2025
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12 Mar 2026
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Carter is late.
Peter Benton’s eyes drift to the clock hanging above the credenza.
7:43pm. Three minutes since he last checked. The ticking hand seems to taunt him.
Carter was supposed to be here by 7pm. He’s always here at 7pm for Sunday dinner.
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Post-series one-shot. Carter is late for dinner.
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- Part 14 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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01 Mar 2026
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Due to totally unforeseen, unavoidable circumstances (John Carter, naked), Anna is late for work. Weaver is going to kill her...if the gunman holding Cook County General Hospital's ER hostage doesn't get to it first.
A brief adventure of lust, love, the life-saving technology of pagers, stupid ideas, and how to get a gunman out of your hair.
Part of the County General ER discord's "More Cake" Challenge.
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27 Feb 2026